So many FRiends want to hang modern liberalism on old Democrats but it just doesn’t wash. If it were 1860, I sure wouldn’t be a Republican. But I’m one now and I’m sure not a Howard Baker Repub. I’m a Jesse Helms Repub.
Greetings from Lee County, Alabama WarDaddy.
Thank you
Same to you
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Democrats have always been democrats. The republican party was the Conservative party of that era and this. They wanted to put slavery back on the road to extinction, just like most of the founding fathers wanted to. Ben Franklin joined an abolitionist group and many founding fathers spoke out agaiinst slavery. They realized that it was incompatible with the Declaration of Independence.
The democrats did the same thing with the Supreme Court that they do now. Legislate from the bench. Dred Scott was as bad a decision as roe v wade. To say that blacks could not be citizens when states had made them citizens since the founding of this country is as laughable as saying life doesn’t begin at conception.
If you wouldn’t be a Republican in 1861 I don’t know why you would be one now.